Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-RepresentationUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 2002 M06 7 - 345 páginas The rich literary tradition of English-language autobiography in the Caribbean, from Mary Prince and Jean Rhys to Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid -- Despite the range and abundance of autobiographical writing from the Anglophone Caribbean, this book is the first to explore this literature fully. It covers works from the colonial era up to present-day AIDS memoirs and assesses the links between more familiar works by George Lamming, C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid and less frequently cited works by the Hart sisters, Mary Prince, Mary Seacole, Claude McKay, Yseult Bridges, Jean Rhys, Anna Mahase, and Kamau Brathwaite. Sandra Pouchet Paquet charts the intersection of multiple, contradictory viewpoints of the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean, differing concepts of community and levels of social integration, and a persistent pattern of both resistance and accommodation within island states that were largely shaped by British colonial practice from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-twentieth century. The texts examined here reflect the entire range of autobiographical practice, including the slave narrative and testimonial, written and oral narratives, spiritual autobiographies, fiction, serial autobiography, verse, diaries and journals, elegy, and parody. "Truly breaks new ground in the field of Caribbean letters." a" Carole Boyce Davies, Northwestern University Sandra Pouchet Paquet is professor of English at the University of Miami and is the author of The Novels of George Lamming. She has been guest editor of the journals Callaloo and West Indian Literature. She was born in Trinidad. |
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... Caribbean writing for what they reveal about the fluidity and reciprocity of narrative identity . Though I might easily have chosen other texts , I selected these for the insight that each allows into the literary and cultural systems ...
... Caribbean writing for what they reveal about the fluidity and reciprocity of narrative identity . Though I might easily have chosen other texts , I selected these for the insight that each allows into the literary and cultural systems ...
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... Caribbean women in the nineteenth century ; they model forms of subject identification that are defining paradigms for modern Caribbean writing , not as a sequence of development but as ongo- ing literary practice.5 They illuminate the ...
... Caribbean women in the nineteenth century ; they model forms of subject identification that are defining paradigms for modern Caribbean writing , not as a sequence of development but as ongo- ing literary practice.5 They illuminate the ...
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... literary quest for self- definition consistently takes the individual on a journey in space and / or consciousness beyond the space of the region . In these texts , for example , a distinctly Caribbean material and cultural geography ...
... literary quest for self- definition consistently takes the individual on a journey in space and / or consciousness beyond the space of the region . In these texts , for example , a distinctly Caribbean material and cultural geography ...
Contenido
Gender Voice and SelfRepresentation | 11 |
The Hart Sisters | 21 |
Wonderful | 51 |
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Adventures African American Antigua artistic authority autobiography Black Jacobins boundaries Brathwaite Brathwaite's British Brother C. L. R. James Caliban Caribbean literary Castle child childhood Claude McKay colonial consciousness context creative Creole Crimea death Derek Walcott discourse distinct elegy England English ethnic experience Finding the Center gender George Lamming Granada Green Hills Hart sisters identification identity ideological individual intellectual island Jamaica Jamaica Kincaid James's Jean Rhys Kamau Kincaid Lamming Lamming's landscape language Long Mahase male Mary Prince Mary Seacole McKay's memory mother Naipaul narrator native space observes Pleasures of Exile poet poetic political quest race racial rative relationship resistance Rhys Rhys's ritual Seacole's self-consciousness sense sexual Skin slave narrative slavery social specific spirit story Thomas Pringle tion tradition transformed Trinidad trope values village voice Walcott West Indian West Indies woman women writing Zea Mexican Diary